提出新方法提升超声图像去斑效果,同时保护组织边界。
Noise-Aware Boundary-Enhanced Generative Learning for Ultrasound Speckle Reduction

- 分两路学习:一路去噪,一路增强边界,协同工作更精准。
- 在6种噪声水平下均优于现有方法,141个3D超声数据集验证。
- 能自动识别噪声强度并动态调整处理策略,适合临床实用。
超声成像是一种无创、实时且成本低的临床诊断手段,但其诊断效果常受固有斑点噪声影响,导致图像质量下降并掩盖解剖结构。现有去斑方法易过度平滑组织边界,且对异质噪声水平泛化能力差。为此,本文提出噪声感知边界增强生成学习(NBGL)框架,同步实现斑点噪声抑制与解剖边界保留,并适应不同噪声水平。该框架包含去噪分支与边界增强分支:前者利用生成学习抑制斑点噪声,后者学习边界敏感特征以保护目标解剖结构。此外,引入噪声感知交互权重生成(NIWG)模块,通过3D拉普拉斯滤波与中位数绝对偏差估计器评估斑点噪声水平,并生成自适应交互权重;该权重融入加权特征逐线性调制(wFiLM)模块,动态调节跨分支特征耦合,提升对不同噪声水平的鲁棒性。在141个3D经阴道超声体积数据上的大量实验表明,NBGL在六种噪声水平下均持续优于当前最优方法,在去斑与结构保持方面表现优异,且与标注解剖边界高度一致。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Ultrasound is a non-invasive, real-time, and cost-effective imaging technique widely used in clinical diagnosis. However, its diagnostic efficacy is often compromised by inherent speckle noise that degrades image quality and obscures underlying anatomical structures. Existing speckle reduction methods tend to over-smooth tissue boundaries and generalize poorly to heterogeneous noise levels. To address these limitations, we propose a Noise-Aware Boundary-Enhanced Generative Learning (NBGL) framework for ultrasound speckle reduction, which simultaneously preserves annotated anatomical boundaries and adapts to varying noise levels. The NBGL framework consists of a speckle reduction branch and a boundary enhancement branch. The former leverages generative learning to suppress speckle noise, while the latter learns boundary-sensitive representations to preserve target anatomical structures. Furthermore, a noise-aware interaction weight generation (NIWG) module estimates the speckle noise level via 3D Laplacian filtering and a median absolute deviation estimator, and translates it into an adaptive interaction weight. This weight is incorporated into a weighted feature-wise linear modulation (wFiLM) module to adaptively modulate cross-branch feature coupling, thereby improving robustness to varying noise levels. Extensive evaluations on 141 3D transvaginal ultrasound volumes demonstrate that NBGL consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in speckle reduction and structural preservation across six noise levels, while maintaining consistency with annotated anatomical boundaries.
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